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To: Brilliant
To be fair on this, when we take communion, the Pastor always tells the congregation that communion is for people who have already been saved. It has no meaning unless you’re saved.

My understanding of the Baptist communion service is that it is symbolic. The Holy Eucharist in the Catholic and Orthodox Churches is the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ (as explained above). Only those who have received a Trinitarian Baptism and are in a state of grace, may receive the Eucharist.

71 posted on 12/27/2008 4:11:37 PM PST by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)
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To: NYer

Correct.... Symbolic. Hard for me to understand how it could be more than symbolic, though.


95 posted on 12/27/2008 4:40:11 PM PST by Brilliant
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